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Budget Travel Magazine

"What's better than going on a trip? Planning a trip! And if you're planning a trip because you need to get away from the hustle, bustle and financial demands that are constantly in the mail there's no better way to plan a trip than with an inexpensive guide.

Budget Travel magazine is about 80 pages chock full of great ideas for only $5.00. Every page contains beautiful photography and includes both national and international destinations. Guides range in all styles from what sights to see, historical destinations, walking tours and great places to eat and stay. It also includes unusual things like tracing your genealogy through travel and the best gear to get for your trips. All along and in the back are lists of ways to plan your journeys. Here's an idea: keep a scrap book or box with articles on the places you'd like to see someday... maybe in the near future!"

Reviewed by Inklings employee, Mimi Applebaum

Llama Llama Mother's Day Cards

May's Second Saturday WalkAround is coming up! There will be so many fun things to do, but be sure to hit up Inklings.

There will be a station set up for kids to make their own Llama Llama-themed Mother's Day cards. This will last as long as the supplies do, so please come quickly! The fun starts at 11:00am.

E-books might harm your memory!

Confused about the pros and cons of reading your books in screen format? Here is an interesting study we might consider. In the

meantime, I'm hanging in to my paper versions.

The Justice Department's anti-trust lawsuit against Apple Inc. and major publishers last week shows that influential companies believe we're well on the way to a future of e-reading. It's concerning, then, that some studies have shown that e-books might harm memory. According to Maia Szalavitz in Time magazine, studies have shown that people are less able to recall information they read in e-books or on computer screens compared with traditional text on a printed page (or the "dead-tree format," as print's detractors call it). The problem seems to be with lack of context. Reading is abstract, and physical context such as spatial location is important. A formula in a textbook is on the left or right page, or at the edge of the margin, or on the top or bottom of a page. It occurs on a page, say, two-thirds of the way through the book, which can be known subconsciously as one flips through the pages.

Computer screens and e-books, by contrast, give the reader much fewer spatial triggers to recall information. For those of you who regularly print out your copy of the Daily Advantage; place it in an acid-free cellophane wrap; and secure it in your embossed, gold-lilted Daily Advantage binder, you should have no problems. The smaller the screen, the harder it is to remember stuff--a fairly distressing result given how much of our information is beginning to come from squinting at smartphones. Szalavitz points to a study by Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group that showed that, as the size of screens shrank, so did readers' ability to recall information (I imagine corporate IT managers who read this study are now confiscating

Blackberrys and scrambling to outfit their employees with 55-inch, 1080p computer screens so they'll never forget anything). Reading on a mobile phone led to the worst reading information recall because there's almost no room for any physical cues on the page. The only physical context comes from someone walking into a wall while they're too busy texting. I'm sure other studies have shown that walking into walls is bad for reading comprehension.

A generation raised on digital media will probably have a much easier time comprehending and remembering it and will perhaps learn to substitute different contextual cues for the physical ones relied on when reading books in print. During the transition from papyrus scrolls to bound books, readers probably had similar reactions. "Those kids today with their newfangled pages. Back in my day, the truth unfurled in an unbroken continuity. Who can remember anything when you're interrupted by all this page- turning nonsense?"

Jeremy Ryan, Social Media Managing Editor

World Book Night

World Book Night is ALMOST here!

World Book Night is a celebration of reading and books which will see tens of thousands of people share books with others in their communities across America to spread the joy and love of reading on April 23.

This is the first year the U.S. is participating in World Book Night, and the second year for the U.K. There were 30 titles chosen, and each of the authors generously waved rights to make these special, free, World-Book-Night-edition books happen. Learn more here .

*exciting news*

Inklings still has room for TWO more givers. If you would like to hand out free books to light/non-readers, and you have read either A Prayer for Owen Meany or I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, please call Susan at 965.5830.

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Book Flash Mob

We found this article from the Gazette Times, and had to share it with you:

Stefani McRae-Dickey walked up to a complete stranger downtown and handed her a book. She assured the woman, Phyllis Witham, that the book — “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini — is excellent.

McRae-Dickey was one of a dozen people who convened Wednesday on both sides of Second Street between Jefferson and Madison avenues as part of a globally coordinated book-reading flash mob. The event was held around the world at the same time — 4 p.m. — in each area’s respective time zone.

“The idea is to pay it forward and give back to the community,” McRae-Dickey said. “It’s sharing something that was meaningful in our lives.”

Organized locally by the Friends of the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, Wednesday’s event lasted 15 minutes. Participants were asked to wear a yellow hat, to gather at the assigned location at the assigned time and to start reading. The idea was that when a passerby asked one of the yellow-hatted readers what was going on, the reader would hand their book to that person.

Each participant had brought a book to the event that was meaningful or had inspired them. Inside the book was a flyer asking the new owner of the book to do the same after reading it.

“If you keep a good book on your shelves, it just sits there,” said Samm Newton, 27, of Albany. Newton, who works at Grass Roots Books & Music, grabbed a book from the store’s giveaway pile and joined in Wednesday afternoon.

“It’s all about spreading the joy of books,” she said.

And those who encountered the flash mobbers walked away with a huge smile.

“It’s so much fun to see people doing this,” said Witham. “I love this community,” She added that she already is in the habit of passing along her favorite books.

“If I made my own bumper sticker, it would read: ‘So many books, so little time.’ ”

Written by Emily Gillespie

Book Photos

" You can never get a cup of tea, or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis

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The Character Word of the Month for May is "Courtesy." Courtesy is being polite and having good manners. It is being considerate of others. It is a way of speaking and acting with people which gives them a feeling of being valued and respected.